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With the Pentagon's top priority, generous appropriations from Congress and Schriever's skilled midwifery, the project successfully gave birth to a whole family of missiles, the most recent of which is the Minuteman, current mainstay of the Strategic Air Command. Schriever rode his missiles to four-star rank and leadership of the Air Force Systems Command, where, at the early age of 50, he became his service's No. 1 technocrat. But last week, under a broiling sun and a flyover of 19 jet planes, Schriever, tall and still youthful-looking at 55, took the parade...
Integrated circuits are becoming one of the basic building blocks of the space age. They are vital to the electronic systems of the Minuteman II and Polaris missiles, the Navy A-7A attack bomber and the supersonic, swing-wing F-111A. They are at work in the radiation measurement system aboard Lunar Orbiter I and will be used in the Apollo Project's lunar excursion module. ICs are used in the new ground-surveillance radar system at the Atlanta airport and are being designed into most new military and commercial computers. Within the last year, the tiny chips have...
...increased its fleet from 781 combat ships to 912. The Air Force has just about finished an expansion of its tactical fighter wings from 16 to 21. The U.S. already has an advantage over the Soviet Union of better than 4 to 1 in intercontinental missiles: 1,376 Minuteman, Polaris and Titan II "birds" v. Russia's estimated arsenal of 300. The price of this military might for the coming fiscal year will be about $60 billion-or some 55? out of every tax dollar...
...will increase its strategic-missile force by 1968 to a projected ceiling of 1,710, including 656 submarine-based Polaris projectiles. The Pentagon is now installing 200 late-model Minuteman II missiles, is developing a Minuteman III with improved range, explosive power and targeting flexibility. Although the big missile force is largely in place and paid for, there is some apprehension among the experts that the improving power and accuracy of Soviet missiles may some day make the land-based birds obsolete. If that occurred, the U.S. might have to switch-at vast expense-to the water, placing ICBMs...
...using a hand-held sextant to sight stars setting on the earth's horizon, they were able to determine their position in space and demonstrate that astronauts can navigate without the aid of a computer. In an experiment for the Defense Department, they tracked the payload of a Minuteman missile, took infra-red measurements of the plasma sheath of ionized air that was created when it plunged back into the atmosphere below them. Another experiment, communication with earth through a laser beam, was only partially successful. After several fruitless attempts, the astronauts spotted the blue-green beam from...